A Love Once Lost

Chapter Title: A Love That Was Found

Genre: Romance, Drama

Chapter(s): 4/4
Character(s): Mimi, Yamato, and the whole Digi gang from season 1
Pairings: Mimato, a little Taiora, Takari, and two surprise couples
Word count: 3,132
Rating: PG-13

Spoilers: None

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"What a dream…" Mimi murmured softly, slowly opening her eyes. She blinked curiously, something warm and familiar was in her grasp. In her tightly gripped hand was her blue digivice. Shaking her head, trying to get rid of the rest of her sleepiness, she accidentally bumped her elbow against something hard.

"Mmmph…five more minutes Takeru," a familiar voice whined, muffled by what seemed like a cloth of some sort. She felt movement near her body, making her own body instinctively shy away from.

'Eep!' Mimi froze, realizing that she wasn't the only one in the room. Praying to every god, both hers and others, she slowly looked down, preparing herself for the worse.

Yamato was sleeping by her bed; his head nestled by her arm and partially covered by the sheet that had covered her. The final addition in the cute picture, was that a few strands of her long, auburn hair in his loose grip. He was like a sleeping child. Innocent and just plain cute.

"Matt…" Mimi murmured, her vision blurring as she smiled down at Yamato. The memories of her life before and now intertwined in her mind. She remembered the times when she couldn't stand him, like the time she accidentally dumped a bucket of dirty water on his head from her apartment window, him nearly running over her with her bike a few days after that in revenge.

Mimi also remembered the better times. The night he softly serenaded her from outside her window, the neighbors nearby with their lights on, crowding near their windows as they tried to remain invisible, all probably saying how absolutely adorable that was. The next day, she couldn't go anywhere in her apartment complex without kind, mothers cooing how cute they looked together.

The time she was almost late for school, forgetting that the Japanese went to school earlier than Americans, but Matt, who also slept in, gruffly told her to get on the back of his bike, and quickly got them safely to school, only managing to not crash into one old lady near the crosswalk.

Smilingly gently, Mimi leaned down, memorizing every angle of his sweetly sleeping face. For a few seconds, all she did was lay close to him, until the desire for him to wake up was too much.

Slowly, a devious thought cumulated in her mind, a slow scheming smirk appeared on her face. Slowly, Mimi moved toward him, her face moving closer and closer to him until their noses were barley touching. Reverently, she gently placed her lips on his velvet likes ones, their first kiss in a new life.

For a moment, she received no reaction until a pair of sleepy baby blues opened, slightly confused about the barely there contact. His eyes widened at who was kissing him before he pulled away and fell off his chair.

Mimi burst into a fit of laughter as she saw the love of her life…or lives, sprawled on to floor in an undignified heap. She clutched her stomach trying to contain her laughter, "How graceful of you Matt!"

Yamato continued to stare up at Mimi as she nearly suffocated from lack of air, his hand slowly moving up, his hand gently pressed against her cheek. Mimi abruptly stopped laughing at the soft touch. Her eyes softened as she placing her hand against the back of his hand, nuzzling it with her cheek, a content smile on her smiling lips.

"You remember…?"

"Of course I would," Mimi said tenderly, leaning forward until their faces were barely millimeters away from each other.

A thought hit her.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" Mimi clapped her hands together, remembering something she had forgotten earlier. She pulled away, much to Yamato's disappointment, but he remained silent, watching what he was doing with complete utter seriousness which made Mimi giggle mentally, her heart warmed at the familiar sight.

"Ahem," she extended her hand toward him, a friendly smile on her face. "Hello! Welcome to this school! I'm Mimi, Mimi Makoto." She winked, "It's nice to meet you. I hope we can become friends."

Yamato slowly blinked at the outstretched hand, his mind completely blank at her action. Slowly, a small smile made its way before he accepted the extended hand, shaking it firmly.

"Yes, it's a pleasure to come to this school. I was thinking it would be boring," Yamato tilted his head to the side, a soft smile on his face as he raised her hand to his face, gently kissing the back of it, "Yet, I think I might like it this year." He nodded his head slightly, "I am Yamato Genrou; you however, may call me Matt. It's a pleasure to be here."

A familiar wolf-life gleam appeared in a pair of innocent blue eyes before he raised himself up from the ground with a little help from Mimi. Unexpectedly, he fell forward, right on top of her, his upper body elevated by his elbows that were planted firmly beside her head. His lower body was elevated by his knees, which were on either side of her slender legs. His face was barely in inch away from her face, their noses bumping from time to time.

"Especially since I seem to have such a sexy thing in my class," he murmured, gently brushing his lips against hers, savoring the sweet taste of strawberries. It was most likely from her breakfast an hour or so ago.

"Playboy," she pouted playfully, following along with the act. "You've just met me, yet you're acting as if you've known me before."

Sky blue eyes softened slightly as he set his forehead gently against hers, "I do know you…even before you became Mimi Makoto."

"Is that so Yamato Genrou?" Mimi accented his last name, purring softly against his cheek, just happy that he was close to her.

"Of course," Yamato said, an arrogant grin on his face. Seeing her pout once more, he lowered his head down toward hers, capturing her lips in a tender, yet passionate kiss that felt all too familiar.

After a minute or two, oxygen finally had to come in. Releasing his hold on her, he panted lightly as he spoke. "Yes…it's been too long."

Their moment was soon interrupted by the frantic sound of feet. Yamato quickly looked up, rolled off the bed, and landing on the floor once more, both hoping it wasn't a teacher.

'This is a habit that I do NOT want to get used to,' he thought as he gazed back up at a blushing Mimi.

"Mimi! Matt! Are you two there-whoa!" Tai shouted as he slammed open the door and quickly skidded to a halt as he saw the blushing blonde and brunette.

Sora, Koushiro, Jou, T.K, and Kari collided into him because of his abrupt stop. They looked over the spiky brunette's body to look at why he stopped and all of their eyes widened in shock and glee. The girls were the ones who were happy. The guys, well…they were just shocked and embarrassed, all jealous of Matt's boldness with his newfound, or old found, girlfriend.

They really did look like they had just made out a little while ago. Mimi's clothing looked disheveled from the tackle Yamato had done previously. Her hair was sticking in several places and her face was still red. Her lips were slightly swollen and her lip-gloss was slightly smudged.

Yamato, he looked the same as Mimi except his clothes were less disheveled and he only had a slight touch of lip-gloss on his lips from Mimi.

"Ahem…uhh…I guess you remember then…" Tai said, looking at anything that wasn't Mimi and Yamato.

It didn't help that Sora and Kari were giving Mimi the thumbs up sign from behind him, which made Mimi blush an even deeper shade of red if that was possible.

"How about we go to the Digital World since we have our digivices now?" Mimi said softly, her voice interrupting the heavy and uncomfortable tension that had dropped on them.

"Yeah! I want to see Gatomon! I hope she's been okay without me," Kari said as she dragged off T.K, who was followed by an overprotective Tai, who was also followed by the rest of the sweat-dropping group.

Yamato rolled his eyes before getting up, looking back down at Mimi. She blushed before looking back down at her hands as if they were the most interesting things in the world. A thought then struck him. Before Mimi knew it, she was swept up into his strong arms bridal style and being carried toward the computer room.

"Matt! Let me down right now!" Mimi cried as she struggled in his arms.

"Nope, not doing it. I'm not letting you out of might sight. Not EVER," Yamato said. His tone of voice serious and unwavering.

Mimi blinked at his tone and expression before smiling. "If that is what you want, then I'll have to agree." She wrapped her arms around his neck. "I could never win against your blue eyes back then, and…now," she sighed in false sorrow.

Yamato gently nuzzled her neck in response making her giggle slightly. 'I'm keeping to my promise…I swear I won't let anything happen to you. This time, the ending will turn out good, I swear it.'

It took the two a minute or to get to the computer room. Waiting for their entrance were a grinning bunch of perverts.

"We didn't do anything!" Mimi argued, another blush forming on her face.

"Riiiight…" Sora said, winking at her friend.

"Never mind, let's just go to the Digital World!" Tai whooped with delight as he opened the gate to the Digital World. Pulling out his digivice, he pointed it toward the gate, his body soon disappeared into the computer. Koushiro, Jou, T.K, and Kari soon followed.

Sora was the last to go in. She looked at both Yamato and Mimi, a smirk on her face. Try not to stay too long, 'kay?" With that said, she turned around and disappeared into the computer.

Mimi and Yamato both looked at each other, a grin on their faces, as they took out their digivices from their pockets. Holding Mimi's hand tightly, he opened the Digital gate and they disappeared into the computer.

The group appeared in the Digital World. For a minute, they stood silent, memories of their past adventures running through their minds. A nostalgic smile on all of their faces. They had gained many new friends trying to save the Digital World. At the same time, they had lost many at the cost. It was hard, but they all had moved on forward in their own way.

To all of their immense surprise, they found some of their partners were in either their Champion or Ultimate form.

T.K and Kari found out Patomon and Gatomon, obviously enough, were dating, in their Angel forms.

"So…what about you and T.K?" Angewomon said as she nudged the blushing brunette.

"Umm…" both T.K and Kari turned away from each other, trying to avoid eye contact, their faces the color of a beet.

"Hey Agumon! Why didn't you stay in your Champion form?" Tai said as he embraced his old friend.

"Nah, all of them are too big. Besides, I'm much cuter this way," the mini yellow lizard said as he happily hugged Tai. "Ya got any food on you?"

"Agumon!"

Sora, Koushirou, and Jou found that their partners were still in their rookie forms. Their Champion and up forms were a tad too big for them to be able to maneuver decently in the Digiworld.

"Lilymon!" Mimi cried as she saw her old friend flying up in the air.

"Heya Mimi! Miss me?" The flower fairy said as she landed gracefully on her right foot in front of Mimi. Her arms were outstretched to hug her soon-to-be-crying brunette friend.

"Of course I did!" Mimi sobbed as she quickly placed the green-haired Digimon in a hug/vice grip thingy.

"WereGururumon?" Yamato said in surprise as he turned to see his partner running up quickly in front of him, stopping barely half a foot away from the blonde, panting happily as he nearly tackled his partner. Luckily, WereGururumon knew better than to be emotional in public, especially in front of Matt's girlfriend.

The ever-present smirk that was on the blue werewolf seemed to grow even wider, "Yup, it's me."

WereGururumon looked from Yamato, then back to Mimi, his nose twitching slightly. "Your scent is all over Mimi…?"

The blonde grinned, a light blush covering his features as she nervously rubbed the back of his head. "Well…"

"I really hope you didn't do what I think you did to her," Lilymon spoke sharply as her black eyes narrowed on Yamato. She had unlatched herself from Mimi, her attention focused on Yamato. Her hands were on her hips, her feet lightly tapping the ground.

"WHAT! NO!" Mimi cried as she blushed brightly.

"Good," Lilymon nodded slightly, a flicker of relief passing through her eyes as she reattached herself onto her partner.

Suddenly, WereGururumon broke the uncomfortable tension that had befallen the quartet by dragging Lilymon toward a different direction. "You can bond with Mimi later. She and Yamato need to catch up."

"What! No way, I'm not leaving her with mpfh-" Lilymon's voice was soon muffled by WereGururumon's large paw as he pried her away from Mimi, her eyes DEFINTLY showing her rage.

"We'll see you two lovebirds later," the werewolf winked mischievously before walking away, a struggling Lilymon still in his arms.

Mimi and Yamato chuckled as they watched the duo leave and soon disappear before they realized they were alone.

"Well…" Mimi blushed slightly, all this going a little too fast for her again.

"Now that we're alone…" Yamato's grinned turned sly as he pulled Mimi toward him, wrapping his arms around her slender waist, burying his head into the crook of her neck. Slowly, as if he had all the time in the world, he began gently kissing her neck, leaving a small mark of possession on her.

"Matt…"

Her small and timid voice made him turn his attention away from her delicious neck and toward her shy eyes.

"I have a question…"

"Shoot, I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability."

"How…how did you remember me? Even though I didn't remember you?" Mimi blurted out, turning her head away from his piercing gaze.

"Because…" He brought up a hand, gently cupping Mimi's chin and raising up so that he could look into her honey brown eyes. "I made a promise; a promise that I would be with you forever, even if I had to follow you in death and into another life. No matter what you looked like, I would always know it would be you. If I didn't find you wherever I was reborn, as soon I was old enough, I would look for you until my death."

He paused for a moment, a somewhat guilty look on his face, but continued. "The second part of that promise is to keep you safe in THIS life since I couldn't keep you safe last time. I swear, whatever happens, I WILL protect you" he said all this nonchalantly, making Mimi's eyes slowly water.

"You…why did you…"

"Simple," he said quickly, cutting her off, smiling down at her. "I love you," he whispered, gently leaning downward and catching her silky lips into a passionate, yet tender kiss that would blew her mind away.

When he finally freed his prisoner from her fervent confines, he gently placed his forehead next to his. To his delight and triumphant, she was out of breath, her eyes dazed and full of love and pleasure.

"So, does that answer you question?"

"Yes."

That one word was soon lost in the wind as Mimi leaned up and caught Yamato's lips with hers, her long pent up emotions of love, sadness, relief, and happiness mixing into his. Love for the love she felt for him. Sadness for what she felt about the past. Relief for finding him once more. Moreover, happiness….well…that was obvious. She was just happy to be with her beloved and group of friends again.

Elsewhere, in a bush nearby, Lilymon was watching her partner, an imp-like grin on her face. Her anger from earlier was completely forgotten. WereGarurumon was with her, making sure she didn't get herself into any trouble because of her eavesdropping.

Lilymon turned around and stretched languidly against the tree that was coincidentally behind her. "They seem to be happy now…"

WereGarurumon nodded as he sat close to her, trying his best to keep his wolf ears from sticking up or the preoccupied couple might see them. Even though the chances were slim, that would be happening anytime soon, it was better to be careful sometimes.

If he could blush, he would've been beet-red by now. This felt too much like they were intruding on some intimate situation, which was true.

Lilymon could sense her friends' discomfort and crawled where the blushing lupine was sitting. Leaning against his shoulder, she sighed. "I'm sorry for dragging you along with me. I must be a nuisance to you…"

The blue wolf smiled before gently wrapping a strong paw around her slim shoulders. "Nah, it's been fun. Never a dull moment really."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Are you sure?"

WereGarurumon laughed at her persistence, but answered, "Yes, I'm sure."

Without warning, the flower sprite leaned up and kissed the wolf's soft snout. A small blush was on her face when she leaned down. "Thank you. That was one of the kindest thing anyone has ever said to me."

It was hard to see what WereGarurumon was thinking since…well…since his face couldn't really show his emotions. Luckily, his eyes were always a window of emotional information. Currently, they were confused, embarrassed, and oddly, filled with hope.

Maybe…there was a chance for him to be with the green-haired beauty. Slim chance, but if Yamato could fall for Mimi and vice-versa, even though they seemed like the most unlikely couple, maybe she could fall for him.

Carpe Diem.

Yamato had said that to him before he had nervously asked Mimi out on a date. To the wolf's relief, Mimi had happily accepted. Brushing the tiny, itty-bitty, annoying voice that told him that this was a bad idea, he spoke up.

"Lilymon?"

"Yes?"

"How…how about a date?"

"What kind of date? With friends or…"

"Just you and me…alone…" came the tense answer.

"I would love to WereGururumon," Lilymon said leaned forward and gently placed a kiss on his scruff. "How about right now? Mimi and Yamato seem to be…caught up. The others won't mind if we aren't there."

A wolfish grin, similar to Yamato's appeared on WereGururumon canine face. 'This could work out after all.'

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SS: I can't believe I forgot about this. O.o; I thought I uploaded it a while ago before my computer totally crashed, and I had to restart EVERYTHING. u.u; Anyway, done with the sob story.

Uhh…ahem…yeah…-grins sheepishly- It was so messed up since I was in hurry to finish it before my creative day was over. In addition, I thought I would even it out to be easier to read. :3 I'm not sure how Lilymon and WereGururumon are able to stay in their ultimate forms, but if there's a will, there's a way. –smiles-